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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 8

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TAXI COMPANY NOBBED. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 5. > Arrested at, Sydney, whence he ■ was extradited, Arthur Stickings, 30. ■ taxi-driver, returned by the Aorangi, ■ in charge of Detective H. A. Wilson ’ He appeared later at the Police Court , charged that, on August 8, being arm- ' ed with a shotgun, he robbed Frank 1 Pickering of a leather brief bag con- ’ taining £219/9/9, the property of Atta Taxi Company, Limited. On the application of Detective-. Sergt. McHugh, Stickings (for whom Mr Selwyn Clarke appeared) was remanded to September 12. x Similiarly charged, Harold Last . Gray, 49, ship’s firepian, who was ar- . rested! at Christchurch, was further remanded 1 to the same date. t SESSION’S END. WELLINGTON, September 5. Commenting, to-day, on the varying j predictions of the date of the General * Election, Mr Savage said that it would, be determined by the date on which the present session ended. “If I can say that the end of the session will be on September 20,” said Mi’ Savage, “it will be very easy for me to announce ‘ when the election will take place, but I cannot say at the moment when the ’ session will end. The public can rely upon it, however, that the election will be held at as early a date as can be fixed. We have to do this, because there always have been com- . plaints about elections running up ■, close to Christmas time, and we have ) to avoid this. If I can get the full . list of legislation proposals, I will be r able to get a definite idea of how soon 1 the various Bills will take to put - through the House. Those Bills twill i go through, and the House will rise j at a given date, even if -\ve have to - sit on Mondays, and perhaps on Satur- - days, too.” NAPIER HARBOUR 5 WELLINGTON, September 5. j Satisfactory working arrangements ? acceptable to all parties, which will . enable the lighterage difficulty at Na- . pier harbour to be overcome, was ans nounced to-day by the Minister of f Marnie (Mr. Fraser). This followed i a meeting on Friday of the Works Committee of the Napier Harbour Board and the shipping and meat freezing interests, concerned with the operation of lighters from the inner . harbour to overseas vessels in the . roadstead. To improve the depth of water in L the inner harbour entrance channel, . the Board will operate a dredger on . double shifts for at least two months. The Minister said it had not been . economically possible to maintain a channel of sufficient (lepth, to give free entry for qll lighters, at exceptionally low tides, but he felt that . with the co-operation of all concerned, the reputation for efficiency which the port now enjoyed, could be maintained with the arrangements now made. WRESTLERS ATTACKED. WELLINGTON, September 5. An unusual incident occurred in a professional wrestling match at Waihi, on Saturday, during the progress of the contest between Fed Batros (Syria), and Al Dane (Australia). Without warning, two young me.n from the audience rushed into the ring. They both set upon the wrestlers, who were then locked together, and belaboured them with their fists. Officials, the referee, and. the police intervened, and a general melee ensued, difficulty being experienced in breaking the assailants away, and bustling them out of the ring. The police then took them into custody. Batros, who was one fall up, gained the decision, Dane refusing to continue the bout, in the circumstances. As a sequel, Robert William Paterson and Alfred George Wright appeared. in (ho Police Court, this morning, charged with disroderly conduct while drunk. Accused were remanded until September 21. RANGOON RIOT. * RANGOON, September 4. Renewed rioting resulted in ten being killed and forty injured. The ma-i jority of the victims were Mohammedans. The police fired on a Burmese mob, which ignited the Indians’ houses. I 1 KIDNAPPED WOMAN. j MARYSVILLE (Calif), Sept. 4. j Mrs. Meeks returned home unharmed. She said she escaped from a hide out, while the kidnappers were absent, but it was generally believed she was released after the payment of r 15,000 dollars ransom. A physician examined her and said she was suffering from shock, but had not been mistreated. He quoted her as saying that she had only chocolate bars as food b after her abduction. e